Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system of diagnosis and treatment that dates back over 4,000 years and encompasses many treatment modalities including:
•Acupuncture
•Chinese Herbs
•Moxibustion
•Tui Na (Chinese Massage)
•Exercise and Lifestyle
TCM and Acupuncture are considered a holistic medicine approach
to healing, because they treat the body as a whole. During the intake
of an acupuncture treatment, all aspects of your body are taken into consideration: Your physical ailments, emotions, spirit, and lifestyle.
The goal of the treatment is to recognize interrelationships between organs and organ systems in order to maintain balance and homeostasis in the body. The diagnosis and treatment using Traditional Chinese Medicine states no distinction between mind and body, and recognizes
the integration of physical signs, symptoms, and the individuals'
emotional response to life. Emotions have specific physical effects on
the body, and physical symptoms yield certain emotional imbalances.
One of the unique aspects of TCM is that the diagnosis and treatment
of a person is not based on physical symptoms, but on the identification
of patterns. The culmination of signs and symptoms of disease show
an underlying reason, or root cause, of why the symptoms exist therefore displaying a pattern of imbalance. The treatment of disease in TCM
is through the deeper, underlying cause rather than the masking of symptoms.
